EMBER’S POV
“Every entrance was guarded when we tried to break into the cabins again.” Queenie is beside me in the back, gripping my hand, her face a wreck of guilt and desperation. “We tried every access point. Every road, every trail, every gap in the fence. Nathaniel finally found a break in the eastern perimeter when all of Rafael’s men got pulled back to the lodge. Something happened in there, some kind of chaos, gunfire—”
“That was me.”
Queenie stares at me. “That was YOU?”
“Long story. Involves my wolf and a dining room full of Rafael’s employees trying to shoot each other.”
“Your wolf did THAT?”
“Ember.” Nathaniel, cutting through again. “I know you have every reason to throw us out of this car. I know what we did. I know what it cost you. And I am not asking for your forgive
